Midlands productions

Margi
Clarke takes the lead role in Julie Coombe's Hormonal Housewives which tours to Derby's Assembly Rooms
tomorrow (Monday);

13
undergraduates of De Montfort University will bring to life The Laramie Project, a pioneering piece of American theatre
based on real-life events in the town of Laramie, Wyoming, in the Studio
at Leicester's Curve from tomorrow until Saturday;

Bette
Davis confronts the ghost of Joan Crawford in Bette & Joan: The
Final Curtain,a new play by Foursight Theatre,
which tours to Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday;

the
Ukrainian National Opera of Kharkiv performs Puccini's La Boheme at De Montfort Hall,
Leicester on Tuesday and Verdi's La
Traviata at Derby's Assembly Rooms on Thursday;

the
Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Taming of the Shrew tours to Nottingham's
Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday;

Graham
Seed plays Prime Minister Jim Hacker and Michael Simkins is Cabinet
Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes,
Prime Minister which should get audiences' votes at Buxton Opera House
from Tuesday until Saturday;

Neil
Morrissey and Brian Conley share the role of Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh's
new production of Oliver! at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until 21
April;

Gecko
Theatre Company returns to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry with Missing, "a
journey into the depths of a person's psyche", a show first seen there as
a work-in-progress last year, from Wednesday until Saturday;

three
unwitting heroes compete in the ancient Olympics with epic results in The Games, "an undiscovered
Aristophanes comedy", presented by Spike Theatre in association with Unity
Theatre and The Met, at Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham on Thursday;

Vamos
Theatre finds there's Much Ado About
Wenlock in Nottinghamshire at Eastwood Theatre on Thursday, Crescent
Centre, Mansfield on Friday and Southwell Bramley Centre on Saturday;

the
new youth theatre group at Nottingham's Lakeside Arts Centre tackles Rory
Mullarkey's The Grandfathers in
the centre's Djanogly Theatre on Friday and Saturday;

Chris
Larner's story about how he accompanied his wife to the Dignitas clinic in
Switzerland, An Instinct for
Kindness, is at Northampton Royal on Saturday;

Leicester's
"premier Bollywood dance company" Desi Masti returns to the city's De
Montfort Hall with Dance of Olympia on Saturday;

Derby's
Assembly Rooms hosts An Evening of
Burlesque on Saturday;

Stoke's
Regent Theatre expects some more enchanted evenings as South Pacific continues until
Saturday;

Bill Naughton's
classic Alfie continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday;

Michael Pennington
takes his one-man show about the life and works of William Shakespeare, Sweet William,
to Northampton Royal next Sunday;

Sell a Door Theatre
Company stages Nigel Williams' adaptation of William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies at
Buxton Opera House next Sunday;

Chapterhouse
presents an evening of Regency wonderment in a new adaptation of Jane
Austen's Sense and Sensibility at
Mansfield Palace Theatre next Sunday;

Moscow City
Ballet performs two of the world's most famous traditional ballets at Derby Assembly
Rooms, Romeo and Juliet next
Sunday and Swan Lake on Monday and
Tuesday, 19 and 20 March;

Leicester's Curve
continues to host a revival of Gypsy until Sunday, 15 April; and

at the Royal
Shakespeare Company in Stratford, The
Comedy of Errors opens on Friday and continues until 14 May while Twelfth Night continues until 15
May.